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Mr. Speaker, first, I want to congratulate the member for Yellowhead on his election win. A member opposite mentioned something about permanently cutting the carbon tax, but of course not the industrial carbon tax. It is certainly just the consumer carbon tax. The member opposite did not answer, so maybe the member can. Do we think the industrial carbon tax is going to be passed down to consumers,…
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Madam Speaker, I can appreciate the member opposite's talking about affordability. We all heard this from our constituents as we walked the campaign trail. My question is an honest one. He mentioned that the large emitters should still be paying an industrial carbon tax. I am wondering whether he can tell me what he thinks. Does he believe that the large emitters will pay that carbon tax, or does …
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I would much rather trust the members on this side of the aisle, who have lived regular lives and understand what it is like to go to a grocery store. Our Prime Minister admitted that he has never really even been in a grocery store. What we are saying here is very top level, but we need to tell that to the parent putting apples back at the till or the senior who is skipping their meals. We cannot…
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Mr. Speaker, I referred to this in my speech as having a massive impact. We have seen a major increase in food bank usage. Simcoe Hall Settlement House, which has been serving our community for 90 years, has seen a 55% increase. It cannot keep groceries on the shelves. It is running out to the grocery store, spending the money it is getting from gifts from the community to fill up its shelves, but…
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Mr. Speaker, that is a huge question. I feel like those are a pittance. They are little pieces of the puzzle that many Canadians do not have access to other than, of course, the child benefit. In terms of child care, I would invite the member to tell the shift workers in my community about the $10-a-day child care. They do not have access to it because they work midnight shift. The child care is m…
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Mr. Speaker, it feels like I am at Sunday morning church right now. The amazing member here has inspired us with his words, and I am grateful for those words. When I think about Sunday morning, I think about the word “trust”. Canadians are feeling like they cannot trust the government opposite, because it has been saying one thing for 10 years and now it is doing something else, claiming that it n…
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Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time today with the member for Tobique—Mactaquac. It is an honour to rise again today on behalf of Oshawa and the countless families, seniors and everyday Canadians who, unfortunately, are being punished even though they are doing everything right. They work hard. They pay their taxes. They follow the rules. What do they get in return? They get soaring grocery bil…
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Mr. Speaker, I definitely heard those across the aisle blaming global inflation, which is a tired deflection. Canadians do not care where it all started. They care that it is worse here and that they are paying for it. The government's refusal to control its spending and the industrial carbon tax directly drives up costs across the supply chain, from farms to trucks to store shelves. It is not a g…
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Mr. Chair, has the member ever seen a letter from the parole board to a victim of a crime?
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Does the minister think victims are adequately respected in the Canadian criminal justice system?
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Mr. Chair, should victims be granted more rights than they currently have?
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Earlier I listed them all and clearly you cannot name one. Is that correct?
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Madam Chair, on a point of order, I believe the answers have to be the same amount of time as the question posed. He was given—
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Mr. Chair, through you, does the minister believe our justice system puts the needs of criminals ahead of victims?
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Are you saying that victims' rights and criminals' rights are balanced?
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Mr. Chair, I understand offenders who have been convicted of violent crimes do have rights. They are given access to many services and resources including substance abuse treatment, anger and violence management, sex offender treatment, cognitive behavioural therapy, education and literacy programs, employment skills training, psychiatric care and counselling, addiction treatment, risk and needs a…
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Mr. Chair, what about victims? Do they have any sort of need when they are in society after being victims of violent crimes?
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Mr. Chair, offender supports are centrally coordinated and funded, while victim supports are quite fragmented. Do you think that is fair?
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Mr. Chair, clearly the minister will not take responsibility. Earlier I listed a number of services and resources that offenders receive. Can the minister name just one that victims receive?
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Mr. Chair, I am happy to read a few of them: cognitive behavioural therapy, education and literacy programs, psychiatric care and counselling, addiction treatment, risk and needs assessments, employment assistance, parenting programs and all sorts of things like that. Is there one thing in that list that victims have access to?
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Mr. Chair, clearly we do not have any answers to that. Is the minister aware of any time in the past, let us say, five years that a victim was denied their right to attend a parole hearing?
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Mr. Chair, in these instances, we know that even a pandemic could not revoke an offender's rights or alter the date book in any way. Why were victims not afforded that same right?
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Mr. Chair, in one of these letters to a victim of crime, whose father was bludgeoned to death by an axe murderer in Oshawa when I was a teenager, she was told that the parole board would make a decision and—
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Madam Speaker, I will be brief. There was story after story. It really comes down to affordability, and people just want the freedom to be able to live on a safe street and have a home. The best story is about one young lady in southern Oshawa. She came out with her son and said, “This is Ms. Kirkland, who is running for the Conservative Party. You know, the blue party.” Then she said, “Can I give…
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Madam Speaker, I am really superhappy that the member opposite asked me that question, because our Conservatives proposed a ton of solutions in the 44th Parliament as well as during the last campaign. Some of those, I believe, were plagiarized by his government. I am happy that it plagiarized them. Some of them are good. I would like to see them go further.
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Mr. Speaker, we have been dealing with rising food costs for years, but this year it is spiralling out of control. Families, seniors and hard-working Canadians are being pushed to the brink and struggling to afford even the basics. I left the grocery store last week after paying $100 for just two bags: the basics, no meat and only enough to feed my family for a couple of days. Beef is up 33%; oran…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an immense honour for me to rise for my first speech in the House of Commons. To be entrusted with the responsibility of representing the people of my hometown of Oshawa is both humbling and motivating. Oshawa is a proud city built on hard work, resilience and innovation. This chair belongs to it. Oshawa has roots as a manufacturing powerhouse, but it is also a resilient and for…
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Madam Speaker, Dr. Colin Carrie is one of the hardest workers I know, and he always advocated for Oshawa. Some of that investment came because of Dr. Carrie's advocacy, his standing up in this House and saying over and over again what Oshawa needed. The other part was when he was in government for 10 years, with our last Conservative mandate under former prime minister Stephen Harper.
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Madam Speaker, Oshawa has elected a hometown girl who understands its struggles and its strengths. I would be remiss to stand here and speak about things I have not fully learned about. I am here to defend our rights and freedoms, bring common sense back to government and be a voice for families, workers, seniors and youth in Oshawa. I will always work to effectively bring better housing for my co…
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Mr. Speaker, the price of the average home in my hometown of Oshawa has gone up 121% since 2015. According to Equifax, a record number of Ontarians are missing mortgage payments now, up 71.5% since early 2024. A TMU professor said, “The first thing you make sure you do in life is to pay your mortgage, but people aren’t doing that, because the whole system is so broken now.” The Liberal housing min…
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